I continue to experiment with AI in the context of software engineering. I’m fortunate that my team supports me in exploring different ways to improve our daily work. This week, I designed a team of autonomous agents to implement features, from design to implementation. Why autonomous agents? A long time ago, we were delighted when the IDE offered auto-completion. In the previous two years, things have changed. A lot. Coding assistants have become our primary interfaces for coding.[…​]

I noticed some time ago that three Mastodon features had stopped working on my blog. Each of them seemed like a separate problem, but they had the same root cause. In this blog post, I aim to describe these issues and propose a simple solution. Domain verification Mastodon allows you to prove that you own a domain.[…​]

A couple of years ago, I wrote that The Builder pattern is a finite state machine!. A state machine consists of states and transitions between them. As a developer, I want to make illegal states unrepresentable, i.e., users of my API can’t create non-existent transitions. My hypothesis is that only a static typing system allows this at compile-time. Dynamic typing systems rely on runtime validation. In this blog post, I will show that it holds true, with a caveat.[…​]